Halloween Costumes

[Chowderhouse]

I going to dress up as an early 1900s Paris Apache. The Apaches of Paris were young gangsters. Some of them used a unique type of pistol which was named the Apache revolver or Apache pistol: a pinfire cartridge revolver with no barrel, a set of foldover brass knuckles for a handgrip, and a folding knife mounted right underneath the revolver drum for use as a stabbing weapon.

The Apaches also evolved a semi-codified collection of tricks used in mugging and hand-to-hand combat. In Europe, they inspired the Apache dance craze and the striped Apache shirt.


My costume will look almost exactly like this.

Here is an antique Apache revolver.

These are finger ring weapons used by the Apaches.

 

[Mr Lilleythorpe]

Perhaps I could go as the scariest thing I can think of- somebody wearing a tracksuit

 

[Wolfen]

The Shadow.

 

[in/y]

Always wanted to do this...

get two sets of matching clothes,
stitch them together along one side (both pants & shirt),
stuff one set of clothes, adding a head,
put on the other set of clothes myself

and go as recently reunited Siamese twins.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

My bf Tom and I tonight at a dance in Palo Alto. We went as Nick and Nora Charles in our 1940s vintage.

 

[Yeps]

Probably one of the Doctors. I have pretty good costumes for 4, 10, and 11.

 

[splintercellsz]

Myself! The outfits I wear are "halloween" attire to some, so I guess wearing a Fedora & suit should fiit in plenty on this wonderous night.

 

[Red Diabla]

I'm dressing as Elvis. Since I'm a woman, that would make me a Drag King!

 

[JonnyO]

A work polo and khakis with my Lee Commentator, thanks to Sandy.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Once again I'll probably dig out my instant costume of DCUs and combat boots.

 

[Yeps]

Probably one of the Doctors. I have pretty good costumes for 4, 10, and 11.

Well, actually, for the bulk of the evening I will be dressed as a horrendously inaccurate WWII naval officer. Our costume designer could have put in just a bit more effort.

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

We had a party to attend last night, but until Thursday had been thinking it was tonight. The ensuing rush to prepare put a damper on costume ideas - working under pressure and all that - so about an hour before party time, I spied a pair of old Beckwith's of Boston jodhpurs I'd gotten years ago and never worn, and decided to go as Amelia Earhart. Nothing stunning, but at least the other guests guessed me correctly.

 

[thunderw21]

 

[scottyrocks]

I haven't done a Halloween costume in years. We decided, literally at the last minute, to go to a party tonight, so I threw together some stuff and got this. Although I wear a hat and the bag every day, and a safari shirt when it's warm outside, the rest of it came together literally at the last minute. It's not very screen accurate, but it looked good, nonetheless, if I do say so, myself.

 

[Edward]

Money is a bit tight at the minute so I've mostly been falling back on my zombie-dressing-up box this season.

World Zombie day, a couple of weeks ago:

I wore this costume both at a club night on Saturday, and at a friend's horror-themed wedding reception on Friday:

On Halloween itself I will be short on time, given it falls on a working day, so rather than spending the guts of an hour getting ready for this, I will probably just wear one of my best thirties suits and add my zombie contacts and some decent fangs.... a little mouth blood, job done.

 

[Captain Lex]

Well, in the event I am socially obligated to dress up, I can always fall back on the Sherlock Holmes costume I've been wearing socially for the last two weeks!

 

[TraditionalFrog]

I'm going to be that weird cat lady in the strange little house down the street who hands out all the cheap candy to the kids and keeps all the Milk Duds and Kit Kats for herself....

Hey, I was the weird kid who liked cheap candy! Still do, actually!

 

[Espee]

Some year, I'd like to be the basketball coach of Zombie High-- just blow a whistle and yell "Hey you guys, look alive out there!"

 

[The Good]

Some neat costumes.

"The Man With No Name" of the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns. Took a year or so of chasing all the right stuff down at foolish cost. Just finished distressing/bleaching some brown rough-out boots that were a one run-and-done from Fugawee; have a Cimarron Arms Colt conversion and will grow the requisite 5 day beard next week. Just got the leather wrist cuff today.
Of course, at my age, I 'll just look like the old coot in 'Grand Torino' dressing up.

I wish I had "The Man With No Name" gear, but I haven't even started collecting it yet, apart from a lookalike pale blue shirt with railroad stripes.

If the weather were cooler, this is what I'd do:

Obviously not a double-breasted coat, but I think the overall look (especially the hat) is sort of like this from Le Samourai.

I guess I could fake the Indiana Jones look too, with the Akubra Federation and Wested jacket paired with khakis, brown boots, and a white shirt.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

Me - makeup closeup

full get-up

dd Sarah "The 10th Doctor"

bf Tom

ds Daniel